Mondada2012c

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Mondada2012c
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Lorenza Mondada
Title The dynamics of embodied participation and language choice in multilingual meetings
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Tag(s) EMCA, Interactional Linguistics, meetings, multilingualism, participation, multimodality, language choice, categorization, identity
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Year 2012
Language English
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 41
Number 2
Pages 213–235
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DOI 10.1017/S004740451200005X
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Abstract

This article deals with the organization of multilingual meetings, considering the interplay of multimodal resources constituting their interactional order. Using Conversation Analysis, it explores the mobilization of multimodal and multilingual resources by the participants in order to make possible, sustain, and change participation within a meeting. Moreover, it focuses on language choice as a situated and embodied achievement.

The article's empirical contribution is a detailed analysis of a single case, an episode within a meeting in which several radical changes occur concerning language, participation, interactional space, and the categorization of the participants. The analysis explores the systematic organizational features characterizing the meeting before and after change, showing the embodied practices enabling a participant who was silent, sitting in the last row of the room, not speaking the language of the meeting, to become a recognized expert, thus changing the language of the meeting and reorganizing the opportunities to participate.

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